Gunsmithing Custom H&R barrels?

[HSNARC]

I have an H&R 980 ultra slug in 12ga. Is there anyone currently making custom barrels for these? Any builders who made a one off? I wouldn’t think the process of building barrels for these would be ultra difficult?

It would be super handi if I could buy an aftermarket centerfire barrel for this old heavy beast.

 

[Mike Casselton]

H&R used to offer extra barrels for their Handi rifles. It had to be a center fire rifle from the factory.
The cost was right at $75 plus shipping.
They did not sell aftermarket barrels for the shotguns.

 

[FisherT&C]

You can buy chamber inserts that allow about any break open shotgun to shoot pistol cartridges. They are available on ebay.

 

[MikeinTexas]

If you can find a shogun barrel, you can have it “stubbed”..cutting the barrel off around four inches from the breechface, then threading the chamber and threading in any caliber your frame can handle. H&R had several different frames and while you could put a shotgun barrel on a rifle frame, you couldn’t do the reverse. I have one in 223 and found a spare 12ga barrel at a gunstore.

 

[Easy_E]

Some shops around lower Mi were doing straight wall cartridge conversions now that they are legal for deer.